Kathleen Hale Orlando's Cat Books

Orlando is a gorgeous marmalade cat with gooseberry-green eyes. Orlando, his wife Grace (a tabby cat) and their three children – snow-white Blanche, tortoiseshell Pansy and little black Tinkle – frolicked through some eighteen tales between the late 1930s and early 1970s. Kathleen Hale was a British author-illustrator, born in Scotland in 1898. She was a freelance artist before publishing the first of her ‘Orlando’ books, Orlando the Marmalade Cat: A Camping Holiday, in 1938. She died in 2000. Her autobiography A Slender Reputation, appeared in 1994.

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Orlando the Marmalade Cat: A Camping Holiday (Country Life [1938])	Orlando the Marmalade Cat: A Trip Abroad (Country Life [1938])	Orlando’s Evening Out (paperback) (Puffin: ‘Picture Books’ series No.PP14, [1941])
Orlando’s Home Life (paperback) (Puffin: ‘Picture Books’ series No.PP266, [1942])		Orlando the Marmalade Cat Buys a Farm (Country Life, 1942)	Orlando the Marmalade Cat: His Silver Wedding (Country Life, 1944)
Orlando the Marmalade Cat Becomes a Doctor (Country Life, 1944)	Orlando’s Invisible Pyjamas (Transatlantic Arts, 1947)		Orlando the Marmalade Cat Keeps a Dog (Country Life, 1949)

Orlando the Judge (paperback) (John Murray, 1950)	Orlando the Marmalade Cat: A Seaside Holiday (Country Life, 1952)	Orlando’s Zoo (paperback) (John Murray, 1954)

Orlando the Marmalade Cat: The Frisky Housewife (Country Life, 1956)	Orlando’s Magic Carpet (John Murray, 1958)		Orlando the Marmalade Cat Buys a Cottage (Country Life, 1963)
Orlando and the Three Graces (John Murray, 1965)		Orlando the Marmalade Cat Goes to the Moon (John Murray, 1968)	Orlando the Marmalade Cat and the Water Cats (Cape, 1972)